Posts made by davidheim1

Thanks, HornOxx. They were stone-cold simple to model.

A quick model of a set of lounge chairs, seen on the 1stdibs.com web site. The arms are veneered with zebrawood, and the upholstery is beige suede. I used images of the original to generate the textures. For the arms, I imported a screen shot to Photoshop, isolated the arm shape, and saved it as a .png file with a clear background. Then I imported the file as a texture and tweaked it into position. I guess you could call this veneering in SketchUp.
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dh

Many thanks, HornOxx. I'm blushing.

Another piece from images I saw on the 1stdibs.com web site. This one is a modern-day reproduction of a gilded cabinet that Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann created in nineteen seventeen. Reproducing those characteristic torpedo-shaped, fluted legs was a challenge. As it happens, it took six tries before I got the image on the door positioned correctly. (Projected textures is such a cool feature). No joinery on this one, but that's OK. Ruhlmann was notorious for cobbling together a carcase practically from scrap wood with butt joints and nails, then covering everything with exotic veneers.
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dh

Always good to hear from you, tuna.Thanks.

Thank you, sir.

Three desks that I've seen recently on the 1stdibs.com web site. On the left, an oak desk from Harvard Divinity School in the early twentieth century. In the center, a "lady's desk" from France in the forties. It's cerused oak. And on the right, an illustrator's desk from late nineteenth century England.
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dh

Thank you, sir.

I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole and emerged in Victorian England, with three models to prove it. The bench is from a railway platform. The easel dates from about 1870, as does the mirror suspended in space over the bench. All fun to model because these pieces have so much fine detail.
Enjoy! And merry Christmas to all.
dh

Thanks, everyone.
I agree that the piece is a little unsettling, and that it's more like a canvas than a piece of furniture. Interesting nonetheless. I can see it at home in a large European salon, surrounded by swags of damask curtains and lots of gilded and overstuffed furniture.

Couldn't resist this one. It's a contemporary cabinet based on a design by the Italian designer and furniture maker Piero Fornasetti, who died in the late ninteen-eighties. Those lips? Fornasetti had a thing for those lips. They're large silk-screen images of the kisser of Lida Cavalieri, a nineteenth century opera singer. Fornasetti apparently used this image often in his furniture. If only he had used tulip wood (say it fast).
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dh

Thanks, Dave. Modeling bamboo can indeed be tedious. I guess it depends on how photorealistic you want the stuff to appear.

Thanks ntxdave.

Thanks for the good word, tuna.

My latest model:--a pair of bamboo etageres, made in the '50s in the Chinese Chippendale style. I decided not to show the wrapping at the joints; life is too short. But I did add some of those little bamboo bumps here and there.
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dh

Thank you gentlemen. The postmodern movement seems to have fizzled, and I think Frenchy's comment explains why.
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dh

The forum's been quiet for a while, so I thought I'd try to wake it up with a model of "Parrot" chairs by the noted postmodern architect Michale Graves. Among many other things, he designed teapots for Target, a public building in Portland, Oregon, and the main branch of the Denver Public Library. He did these chairs in the early eighties. The originals have a burgundy leather seat and a frame covered in maple veneer. (I got lazy and used a SketchUp texture.)
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Nice. Good idea to save the tapered legs in a component library.

Thanks, everyone.

Many thanks, Robert.